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PANAJI: Goa government collected Rs 90 crore in the form of entertainment and entry tax from five off shore casino vessels during financial year 2012-13, state Legislative Assembly was told today. Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar , in a written reply tabled on the floor of the House, informed that Rs 79.65 crore were collected during FY12-13 from the off shore casinos as entertainment tax and Rs 10.04 crore as entry fee from the people entering the vessels. Goa has five offshore casino vessels, of which one was towed away recently for non-payment of dues worth Rs 12 crore.

NEW DELHI: Multiplex chain operator PVR Ltd today said it will invest Rs 150 crore to add 100 more screens this financial year to its existing network of 400 screens spread across the country. "We plan to open 100 screens this year and it will require an investment of about Rs 150 crore. Our plan is to add 100 screens each year," PVR Ltd Managing Director Ajay Bijli told PTI on the sidelines of CII Big Picture Summit here. In the long term, the company is looking at taking its total screen count to 1,000 screens.

LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh government today gave nod to kick start the work on the first phase of metro rail project here on the lines of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC). The decision was taken at the cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav . "At the meeting it has been decided to start work on the first phase of metro rail project on North-South corridor in state capital," official sources said here. Among other decisions taken in the meeting, animated movie 'Krishna and Kansa' has been exempted from the entertainment tax in the state, they said.

HYDERABAD: The Departmentally Related Standing Committee on Revenue of the Andhra Pradesh Legislature felt that it was not proper to give tax exemption to the IPL T20 matches held here as it deprived substantial revenue to the local bodies. "During discussions on the revenues derived through entertainment tax, the committee has also observed that giving tax exemption to Sunrisers IPL T-20 cricket matches at Hyderabad is not proper as all those matches are being held on highly commercial lines and recommend to reconsider the issue since it deprives huge amount of revenue to the local bodies," the committee said in its 'observations and recommendations' in the report on Demands for Grants 2013-14.

JAMMU: Jammu and Kashmir had tax arrears outstanding of Rs 1,610 crore as on March end 2012, says a report of Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG). "The arrears of revenue, as on March 2012, in respect of the revenue reported by the department was Rs 1610.09 crore", the CAG report on Social, General, Economic and Revenue sectors for the 2011-12 financial year said. Of the Rs 1610.09 crore, Rs 789.60 crore was outstanding for more than five years, CAG said. While highest the at Rs 1537.56 crore is outstanding in Sales and VAT Taxes sector, Rs 35.06 crore is outstanding in passengers tax sector.

CHENNAI: After bringing popular cricketing tournament Indian Premier League under the Entertainment Tax regime, Tamil Nadu government today proposed to levy the tax on another Twenty20 series, the Champions League. Commercial Taxes and Registration Minister BV Ramanaa moved a bill in the state Assembly to further amend the Tamil Nadu Entertainments Tax Act, 1939 for this purpose. Ramanaa said the Champions League Twenty 20 cricket tournament was played among the top domestic teams from major cricketing nations and in India the BCCI was conducting matches for this tournament.

RAIPUR: In view to boost Chhattisgarh's image as an international and national level cricket destination, the state government has decided to exempt the tickets of two IPL season-6 matches, which will be played here, from entertainment tax. "The decision to exempt IPL tickets from entertainment tax was taken during a Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Raman Singh yesterday evening," a government official said today. "The event would help the state to emerge as an international and national level cricket destination, which would also boost the business-trade and industrial prospects of Chhattisgarh ," the official said.

NEW DELHI: Under assessment, irregular claims of exemption and other shortcomings in tax collection system of Delhi Government have caused a loss of over Rs 2,300 crore to the exchequer in 2011-12, the Comptroller and Auditor General said in a report. Slamming the Government for the lacunae in the revenue collection system, the national auditor recommended bringing transparency in tax collection so that such losses can be avoided. "Irregular claim of exemption/concessional rate of tax without furnishing proper statutory forms resulted in short payment of tax of Rs 2310.14 crore including interest of Rs404.30 crore," the CAG said in the report which was tabled in Delhi Assembly today, the last day of the budget session.

In an interview with ET Now, Jawahar Goel , MD, Dish TV, shares his business outlook and gives his views on the 10% price rise in their monthly subscription pack. Excerpts: ET Now: The market has taken very well to the news of 10% price rise in your monthly subscription pack, but just to clarify, is this a uniform 10% hike or is it Rs 20 per month price hike and in which pack or package deal does it get accommodated? Jawahar Goel: It is across. We have decided to pass on the service tax component to the customers.

NEW DELHI: Delhi government estimates to collect a total of Rs 30,454 crore from tax revenue in the financial year 2013-14, an increase of 16 per cent against a total tax collection of Rs 26,150 crore in 2012-13. Pegging the total budget estimate at Rs 37,450 crore, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said while presenting the budget. She said Rs 16,000 crore has been set aside for plan expenditure while the total non plan expenditure has been proposed at Rs 21,000 crore.